Leader of the Labour Party. Edward Samuel Miliband born 24 December is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament MP for Doncaster North sincebeing re-elected in,and Miliband became first a television journalist, then a Labour Party researcher and a visiting scholar at Harvard Universitybefore rising to become one of Chancellor Gordon Brown's confidants and Chairman of HM Treasury 's Council of Economic Advisers.

Miliband was elected to the House of Commons in Miliband was subsequently promoted to the new post of Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Changea position he held from After the Labour Party was defeated at the general electionBrown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party ; in SeptemberMiliband was Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt to replace him.

His tenure as Labour leader was characterised by a leftward shift in his party's policies, and by opposition to the Conservative—Liberal Democrat coalition government 's cuts to the public sector. He led his party into several elections, including the European Parliament election.

Following Labour's defeat by the Conservative Party at the general electionMiliband announced his resignation as leader Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt 8 May He was succeeded in the ensuing leadership election by Jeremy Corbyn. His elder brother, David Milibandstill owns the house today. Ralph Miliband left his academic post at the London School of Economics in to take up a chair at the University of Leeds as a Professor of Politics.

His family moved to Leeds with him in ; Miliband attended Featherbank Infant School in Horsforth between andduring which time he became a fan of Leeds United. Owing to his father's later employment as a roving teacher, Miliband spent two spells living in BostonMassachusettsone year when he was seven and one middle school term when he was twelve. He learned to play the violin while at school, [12] and as a teenager, he reviewed films and plays on LBC Radio 's Young London programme as Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt of its fortnightly "Three O'Clock Reviewers".

In his first year, he was elected JCR Presidentleading a student campaign against a rise in rent charges. In his second year he dropped philosophy, and was awarded an upper second class Bachelor of Arts degree. Inafter graduating from the University of Oxford, Miliband began his working career in the media as a researcher to co-presenter Andrew Rawnsley in the Channel 4 show A Week in Politics.

On 25 Julyit was announced that Miliband would take a month unpaid sabbatical from HM Treasury to be a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University for two semesters.

The Politics of Social Justice". In earlyMiliband resigned his advisory role to HM Treasury to stand for election. Kevin Hughesthen the Labour MP for Doncaster Northannounced in February of that year that he would be standing down at the next election due to being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Gordon Brown visited Doncaster North during the general election campaign to support his former adviser.

He made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 23 May, responding to comments made by future Speaker John Bercow. On 3 OctoberMiliband was promoted to become Secretary of State for the newly created Department of Energy and Climate Change in a cabinet reshuffle. In Marchwhile Secretary of State for Falling Slowly - The Frames - Falling Slowly / No More I Love Yous and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupidwhere he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaitewho threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station were to be given the go-ahead by the government.

This, a government source told the Guardianeffectively represented "a complete rewrite of UK energy policy for the future".

Miliband accused China of deliberately foiling attempts at a binding agreement; China explicitly denied this, accusing British politicians of engaging in a "political scheme". During the parliamentary expenses scandalMiliband was named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the "saints" of the scandal, due to his claiming one of the lowest amounts of expenses in the House of Commons and submitting no claims Laras Theme: Somewhere My Love - Eddie Higgins With The Richard Evans Orchestra* - The Piano Of Edd later had to be paid back.

On 14 May, Miliband announced that he would stand as a candidate in the forthcoming leadership election. On 23 May, former Labour leader Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt Kinnock announced that he would endorse Ed Miliband's campaign, saying that he had "the capacity to inspire people" and that he had "strong values and the ability to 'lift' people".

Ed Miliband subsequently won the election, the result of which was announced on 25 Septemberafter second, third and fourth preferences votes were counted, achieving the support of In the final round, Ed Miliband won with a total of Souviens-Toi Du Jour.

- Mylene Farmer* - Innamoramento, votes to David'svotes. At 40, he was the youngest leader of the party ever. At his first Prime Minister's Questions on 13 Octoberhe raised questions about the government's announced removal of a non- means tested child benefit. A June poll result from Ipsos MORI put Labour 2 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives, but Miliband's personal rating was low, being rated as less popular than Iain Duncan Smith at a similar stage in his leadership.

In Julyfollowing the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowleras well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge-led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.

He also called for the Press Complaints Commission to be abolished — a call later echoed by Cameron and Nick Clegg — and called into question Cameron's judgement in hiring former News of the World editor Andy Coulson to be his director of communications.

The call for an inquiry was rejected by David Cameron, prompting Miliband to say he would set up his own. In a BBC Radio 4 interview shortly after the riots, Miliband spoke of an irresponsibility that applied not only Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt the people involved in the riots, but "wherever we find it in our society. We've seen in the past few years MPs' expenses, what happened in the banks".

Miliband also said Labour did not do enough to tackle moral problems during its 13 years in office. In his first speech ofMiliband said that if Labour won the general election times would be difficult economically, but Labour was still the only party capable of delivering "fairness". He also said he would tackle "vested interests", citing energy and rail companies. Cameron refused, saying it was a matter for the RBS board, leading Miliband to announce that Labour would force a Commons vote on whether or not the government should block it.

Hester announced that he would forego his bonus, and Miliband said Labour would carry on with a Commons vote regardless, focusing instead on the bonuses of other RBS executives. On 23 JanuaryMiliband stated that he was against holding a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union because of the economic uncertainty that it would create. At the Labour conference in SeptemberMiliband highlighted his party's stance on the NHS and announced if elected Labour would abolish the bedroom tax.

It is about the millions of middle-class families who never dreamt that life would be such a struggle". ThroughoutMiliband changed Labour's policy on immigrationpartly in response to UKIP 's performance in the European and local elections in May, and the close result in the Heywood and Middleton by-election in October. Miliband committed to increase funding for border checks, tackle exploitation and the undercutting of wages, require employers who recruit abroad to create apprenticeships, and ensure workers in public-facing roles have minimum standards of English.

In NovemberLabour announced plans to require new EU migrants wait two years before claiming benefits. Miliband campaigned in the Scottish independence referendum with the cross-party Better Together campaign, supporting Scotland 's membership of the United Kingdom.

Opinion polls showed solid leads for the 'no' campaign, with a 20 point-lead on 19 August. However, Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt the end of the month, the lead had fallen to just 6 points, with YouGov analysis showing a big shift in support among Labour supporters.

Miliband made an unplanned visit to Lanarkshire to draw a contrast between a Labour and Conservative future for Scotland within the UK.

The day after the referendum, Cameron raised the issue of 'English votes for English laws', with Miliband criticising the move as a simplistic solution to a complex problem, eventually coming out in favour for a constitutional convention to be Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt after the general election.

The Labour party conference in Manchester on 21—24 September occurred days after the Scottish referendum result.

Miliband's conference speech was criticised, particularly after he missed sections on the deficit and immigration, after attempting to deliver the speech without notes. In FebruaryLabour pledged to reverse the privatisation of the railways by getting rid of the franchising system, after previously saying that they would allow the public sector to bid for franchises.

Following the election, Miliband unveiled his Shadow Cabinet on 8 October Burnham was also given responsibility for overseeing Labour's election co-ordination. On 24 Juneit was reported that Miliband was seeking to change the decades-old rule that Labour's Shadow Cabinet would be elected every two years, Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt wanting to adopt a system where he alone had the authority to select its members.

Miliband later confirmed the story, claiming that the rule represented "a legacy of Labour's past in opposition". On 15 MayMiliband appointed Owen Smith to replace Peter Hain — Angel-A - Escape retired from frontline politics — as Shadow Welsh Secretaryand also promoted Jon Cruddas to the Shadow Cabinet, putting him in charge of overseeing Labour's ongoing policy review with a view to draft Labour's manifesto for the next election.

Watson had offered his resignation, but when Miliband was asked by a journalist specifically whether he had sacked Watson, he replied, " I said it was right for him to go, yes.

On 7 OctoberMiliband reshuffled his Shadow Cabinet for the third time, saying that this would be the last reshuffle before the general election. Miliband conducted a final mini-reshuffle ahead of the general election in Novemberwhen Jim Murphy resigned as Shadow International Development Secretary to become Leader of the Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt Labour Party.

Miliband's first electoral tests as Labour Leader came in the elections to the Scottish ParliamentWelsh Assembly and various councils across England, excluding London, on 5 May The results for Labour were described as a "mixed bag", with the party performing well in Wales — falling just one seat short of an overall majority and forming the next Welsh Government on its own — and making large gains from the Liberal Democrats in northern councils, including SheffieldLeedsLiverpool and Manchester.

Results were less encouraging in the south of England, and results in Scotland were described as a "disaster", with Labour losing nine seats to the SNP, which went on to gain the Parliament's first ever majority. Miliband launched Labour's campaign for the local elections with a speech in Birminghamaccusing the coalition government of "betrayal", and claiming that it "lacked the values" that Britain needed. In AprilMiliband pledged ahead of the upcoming county elections that Labour would change planning laws to give local authorities greater authority to decide what shops can open in their high streets.

He also said that Labour would introduce more strenuous laws relating to pay-day lenders and betting shops. In MayMiliband led Labour through the European Parliament electionswhere the party increased its number of Members of the European Parliament from 13 to Labour came second with This was the first time since the that the largest opposition party had failed to win the most seats in European elections. On 30 Marchthe Parliament of the United Kingdom dissolved and a general election was called for 7 May.

Miliband began his campaign by launching a "manifesto for business", stating that only by voting Labour would the UK's position within the European Union be secure. He Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt an additional pledge on housing and rent on 27 April.

Throughout the campaign for the 7 May elections, Miliband insisted that David Cameron should debate him one on one as part of a televised election broadcast [] in order to highlight differences in policies between the two major parties, but this was never to happen, with the pair instead being interviewed separately by Jeremy Paxman as part of the first major televised political broadcast of the election involving multiple parties.

Despite opinion polls leading up to the general election predicting a tight result, Labour decisively lost the 7 May general election to the Conservatives. Although gaining 22 seats, Labour lost all but one of its MPs in Scotland and ended up with a net loss of 26 seats, failing to win a number of key marginal seats that it had expected to win comfortably.

After being returned as MP for Doncaster NorthMiliband stated that it had been a "difficult and disappointing" night for Labour. Since resigning as Labour leader, Miliband has not taken on another frontbench role. He has spoken about the need to tackle inequality [] and in favour of the Paris climate change agreement. In the aftermath of the referendum result, Miliband said that, although he Nobodys Darling - Various - Tribute To Goyko Schmidt supported Jeremy Corbyn since his election as leader, he had "reluctantly reached the conclusion his position [was] untenable", calling for Corbyn to step down in June Renewing his previous stance on the issue inMiliband criticised Rupert Murdoch 's bid to takeover telecommunications company Sky in Decembersubsequently supporting an inquiry by Ofcom.

Miliband held his seat at the general election with an extremely reduced majority. Miliband described himself as a new type of Labour politician, looking to move beyond the divisiveness of Blairism and Brownismand calling for an end to the "factionalism and psychodramas" of Labour's past.

He also repeatedly spoke of the need for a "new politics". During the Labour leadership campaign, he described himself as a socialistand spoke out against some of the actions of the Blair ministryincluding criticising its record on civil liberties and foreign policy. Miliband called for "responsible capitalism" when Google 's Eric Schmidt commented on his corporation's non-payment of tax.

The Right Honourable Ed Miliband MP Leader of the Opposition In office 25 September – 8 May Monarch Elizabeth II Prime Minister David Cameron Preceded by Harriet Harman Succeeded by Harriet Harman Leader of the Labour Party In office 25 September – 8 May Deputy Harriet Harman Preceded by Gordon Brown Succeeded by Jeremy Corbyn Shadow Secretary of State for Parents: Ralph Miliband, Marion Kozak.

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